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Resource nationalism on the rise in DRC as Covid-19 bites

A series of measures implemented in recent weeks by the Congolese government suggests resource nationalism is once again on the rise in the troubled African nation, while a Covid-19-related shutdown in Haut-Katanga could weigh heavily on copper production from the key mining province.

Ivanhoe Mines' Kamoa-Kakula project is about 25km west of the town of Kolwezi and 270km west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi